The Indian caste of teachers and priests. The three men who come to England in order to retrieve the Moonstone are Brahmins, probably descendants of the original three priests charged by the Lord Vishnu to follow and defend the Moonstone after its move to Benares.
Brahmin Quotes in The Moonstone
The The Moonstone quotes below are all either spoken by Brahmin or refer to Brahmin. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“In the name of the Regent of the Night, whose seat is on the Antelope, whose arms embrace the four corners of the earth.
Brothers, turn your faces to the south, and come to me in the street of many noises, which leads down to the muddy river.
The reason is this.
My own eyes have seen it.”
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Brahmin Term Timeline in The Moonstone
The timeline below shows where the term Brahmin appears in The Moonstone. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam: Chapter 2
...invaders pillaged a famous temple in Somnauth and took everything but this statue, which three Brahmins preserved in a new shrine in Benares. That night, the lord Vishnu visited these Brahmins...
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The Loss of the Diamond: Gabriel Betteredge: Chapter 10
...Murthwaite, who call Betteredge over. Murthwaite explains that the Indians are not jugglers, but “high-caste Brahmins,” and that when he told them he knew their true identities, the men recoiled. They...
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Epilogue: The Finding of the Diamond: Chapter 3
...three Indians from the Verinder estate. A companion explains to Murthwaite that these men were Brahmins but gave up their caste in order to recover the Moonstone, and would spend the...
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